Overall Ranking for P5 School Athletic Programs

[Chris1018]

I'm not sure I agree, but an interesting read nonetheless. For those who don't care to click the link.

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28. UL
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20. Duke
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18. UK
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5. UNC
4. USC
3. UCLA
2. Florida
1. Stanford


https://sports.yahoo.com/ranking-65...trong-18-kentucky-strong-photo-191443271.html

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https://sports.yahoo.com/ranking-every-power-five-school-overall-athletic-success-201918295.html

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[morgousky]

Oh look, west coast teams plus the university of CNN / ESPN rounding out the top 5.

Seems legit.

 

[WeWant9_rivals]

Just an FYI to some- this is a Forde article.

 

[Ripamaru]

You can hate on the west coast all you want but Stanford is the only FBS school in the country that doesn't lower academic requirements for athletes..... The Ivy League schools wont even try it..... Beyond that they are far and away the most successful school in individual national championships.

 

[LeonThe Camel]

When counting diving, surfing, water polo, team hiking, underwater kayaking and every other sport imaginable, you can place whichever team anywhere.
I like to look at the sports that matter to most fans: football, basketball, baseball, softball. Those make the money.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

You can hate on the west coast all you want but Stanford is the only FBS school in the country that doesn't lower academic requirements for athletes..... The Ivy League schools wont even try it..... Beyond that they are far and away the most successful school in individual national championships.

Vandy and Stanford are quite similar on their approach to athletic admissions.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

I wonder how different Duke's academic requirements are for athletes as opposed to non-athletes. Anyone know? Heard they differentiate quite a bit.

 

[Chris1018]

When counting diving, surfing, water polo, team hiking, underwater kayaking and every other sport imaginable, you can place whichever team anywhere.
I like to look at the sports that matter to most fans: football, basketball, baseball, softball. Those make the money.

That's fair....and those are the sports I follow too. At the same time, some of those "lesser" sports athletes are giving it their all every day for little to no recognition. My dad swam for U.K. back in the mid-late 60s. He was a great athlete in his time even though he can't play basketball worth a damn. Like most of America I don't follow competitive cheerleading, but it's my understanding that Kentucky has a pretty good squad.

It's Forde ranking the schools, so it's to be taken with a grain of salt (or the whole shaker). Either way, it was a halfway decent look at other schools that I rarely pay attention to.

 

[morgousky]

I wonder how different Duke's academic requirements are for athletes as opposed to non-athletes. Anyone know? Heard they differentiate quite a bit.

I dont remember the specifics, but Duke athletes are not ivy leaguers. Duke lowered their standards for athletes a long while back.

I mean come on, corey maggetti mayne? Trevon Duval bra?

These guys can barely spell their name.

 

[LeonThe Camel]

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It's Forde ranking the schools, so it's to be taken with a grain of salt (or the whole shaker). Either way, it was a halfway decent look at other schools that I rarely pay attention to.

Regardless of who ranks the schools, it is always taken with a grain of salt. It is always subjective.

 

[LeonThe Camel]

I dont remember the specifics, but Duke athletes are not ivy leaguers. Duke lowered their standards for athletes a long while back.

I mean come on, corey maggetti mayne? Trevon Duval bra?

These guys can barely spell their name.

Our public and some private schools, as a whole, have reduced education to a participation event. Show up, pass.
The argument used to be to reduce entry scores for athletes because it gave inner city youth a chance at a college education.

 

[Jkwo_rivals113955]

You can hate on the west coast all you want but Stanford is the only FBS school in the country that doesn't lower academic requirements for athletes..... The Ivy League schools wont even try it..... Beyond that they are far and away the most successful school in individual national championships.

Yeah - there's just no way that's true.

The data is sparse, but according to this article, their '09 recruiting class in football (of guys who reported their scores) had a median 1800 on the SAT... and presumably those who elected to report had higher scores than those who didn't.
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/02/22/the-price-of-athletics-at-stanford/

I mean, that's a perfectly decent score in a vacuum, but it's pretty friggin' low by elite university standards.

To be as good as they are in athletics (especially in big-money sports like football, where an Alabama or Ohio State can beat out Stanford for a smart kid if he has NFL potential, and where rosters go 80 deep), there is zero possibility that they compete with their actual admissions standards, regardless of what Stanford's PR people claim.

 

[TheAnonymous13]

Stanford is atop bc of sheer volume of sports teams fielded. Florida and others likely would leapfrog Stanford if they competed in the same breadth of sports.